Commonwealth v. Crowe

After a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendants were convicted of aggravated rape. 2 Their motions for a new trial were denied. Their appeals raise common and discrete issues. 3 We recite the facts relevant to each issue separately. .

1. The motions to suppress. On various grounds, the defendants challenge the denials of their motions to suppress the victim’s identifications of the defendants at a lineup and at trial.

“We begin our review with the well-settled proposition that the judge’s findings of fact are ‘binding in the absence of clear error . . . and [we] view with particular…